Lawyer Quotes

Lawyers should never marry other lawyers. This is called "inbreeding," from which comes idiot children and more lawyers. Kip Lurie: Adam's Rib (1949)
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Make crime pay. Become a Lawyer. Will Rogers.
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A man may as well open an oyster without a knife, as a lawyer's mouth without a fee.
Barton Holyday
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Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate. Ambrose Bierce
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A lawyer is a learned gentleman who rescues your estate from your enemies and keeps it to himself. Henry Bougham
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When dictators and tyrants seek to destroy the freedoms of men, their first target is the legal profession and through it the rule of law. Leon Jaworski
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Judge - A law student who marks his own examination papers. H.L. Hencken
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America is the paradise of lawyers. David Brewer
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I never met a litigator who did not think that he was winning the case right up to the moment when the guillotine came down. William Baxter
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Do as adversaries do in law, strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.
William Shakespeare
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There are three sorts of lawyers - able, unable and lamentable. Robert Smith Surtees
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Lawyers earn a living by the sweat of browbeating others. James Gibbons Haneker
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Lawyer: An individual whose principal role is to protect his clients from others of his profession. Anonymous
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Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished. Jermy Bentham
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I think we may class the lawyer in the natural history of monsters.
John Keats
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Lawyers are like rhinoceroses: thick skinned, short-sighted, and always ready to charge.
David Mellor
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A man who never graduated from school might steal from a freight car. But a man who attends college and graduates as a lawyer might steal the whole railroad. Theodore Roosevelt

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